Paper Info
Title
A Transformer-Based Coarse-to-Fine Wide-Swath SAR Image Registration Method under Weak Texture Conditions
Abstract
As an all-weather and all-day remote sensing image data source, SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images have been widely applied, and their registration accuracy has a direct impact on the downstream task effectiveness. The existing registration algorithms mainly focus on small sub-images, and there is a lack of available accurate matching methods for large-size images. This paper proposes a high-precision, rapid, large-size SAR image dense-matching method. The method mainly includes four steps: down-sampling image pre-registration, sub-image acquisition, dense matching, and the transformation solution. First, the ORB (Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF) operator and the GMS (Grid-based Motion Statistics) method are combined to perform rough matching in the semantically rich down-sampled image. In addition, according to the feature point pairs, a group of clustering centers and corresponding images are obtained. Subsequently, a deep learning method based on Transformers is used to register images under weak texture conditions. Finally, the global transformation relationship can be obtained through RANSAC (Random Sample Consensus). Compared with the SOTA algorithm, our method's correct matching point numbers are increased by more than 2.47 times, and the root mean squared error (RMSE) is reduced by more than 4.16%. The experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method is efficient and accurate, which provides a new idea for SAR image registration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/rs14051175
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
synthetic aperture radar, image registration, transformer
Journal
14
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yibo Fan100.34
Feng Wang234.08
Haipeng Wang300.34